Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Rama releasing Ahalya from curse. Lakshmana and sage Vishvamitra are present.. Agastya: Rishi (sage). Son of sage Pulastya and brother of sage Vishrava.He was an uncle of Ravana. Agastya and his wife Lopamudra met Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana during their exile and gave them a divine bow and arr
b) Giti-Ramayan or Durgabari-Ramayan in the 16th century written by Durgabar Kayastha. Bengal – The Bengali Krittivasi Ramayan written by Krittibas Ojha in the 15th century; this is the most revered and most popular version of the epic in Bengal. The Adbhut Acharjer Ramayana by Nityananda Acharya in the 16th or 17th century, which was very ...
The Ramayana is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of the Mahabharata or about four times the length of the Iliad. The Ramayana tells the story of a prince, Rama of the city of Ayodhya in the Kingdom of Kosala , whose wife Sita is abducted by Ravana , the demon-king ( Rakshasa ) of Lanka .
By the time it was documented in the 1960s, the character names, place names, and the precise episodes and events in Maharadia Lawana's narrative already had some notable differences from those of the Ramayana. Francisco believed that this was a sign of "indigenization", and suggested that some changes had already been introduced in Malaysia ...
Adhyatma Ramayana represents the story of Rama in a spiritual context. The text constitutes over 35% of the chapters of Brahmanda Purana, often circulated as an independent text in the Vaishnavism tradition, [9] and is an Advaita Vedanta treatise of over 65 chapters and 4,500 verses.
Rama sent Hanuman to bring a linga from Kashi (modern-day Varanasi), the city of Shiva.Hanuman was delayed, however, but because the muhurta (auspicious time for an event) was about to pass, Rama formed a linga made of sand and consecrated it instead.
Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (circa. 14th century) was an Indian poet from the state of Assam.He is one of the renowned poets pertaining to the Pre-Shankara era.His Saptakanda Ramayana is considered the earliest translation of the Ramayana into an Indo-Aryan language, Assamese. [4]
At the beginning of the Ramcharitmanas, there is a section devoted to the veneration of the name of Rama. [108] As per Tulsidas, repeating the name of Rama is the only means to attain God in the Kali age where the means suited for other ages like meditation, Karma, and Puja are ineffective. [109]